Some time ago I mentioned a library adding animated gif support to UIImage’s called OLimageView.

Here is an open source library for handling gif images that builds upon OLImageView called YLGifImage that provides a nice simple way to include animated gifs in your app with decreased memory usage from Yong Li.

In addition to basic animated gif display YLGifImage allows you to pause and play animated gifs, and provides a nice simple example demonstrating the basics.

Here’s an example image from the readme that normally utilizes about 600MB of memory, but with YLGifImage utilizes only 30MB: